Diet for Hypertension
Treatment of hypertension with the macrobiotic diet is not only limited to improve symptoms and prevent it eradicates the causes of this condition.
Hypertension can be caused by excessive consumption of sugar and refined flours, oils, dairy, fruits, alcoholic beverages and excess fluid. These foods cause blood pressure elevation as in the digestive tract is broken down into glucose and stored in the liver as glycogen. When the glycogen storage capacity exceeds the liver, is released into the bloodstream in the form of fatty acids or triglycerides.
These are the first park in the most inactive in the body such as the buttocks, thighs, abdomen and hips.
Then, as these areas become saturated, excess fatty acid is drawn deeper organs like the heart and kidneys, which gradually coated with fat and mucus. This accumulation also affects the internal tissues causing functional organ weakness and loss of elasticity of blood vessels causing a decrease in diastolic (minimum).
The fatty acids contained in blood plasma and adhere to red blood cells and make them sticky. Normally, red blood cells to bend and fold to pass through the tiny blood vessels, but if the red cells are covered with fat, stick together, to clump and clog capillaries depriving cells of oxygen which increases the diastolic pressure (minimum) and systolic (maximum).
Food intake described earlier, will be called extremely yin, also affects the sympathetic nervous system. Stimulation of these nerves, whose terminals extend from the ganglia of the chest to the blood vessels of the stomach, liver, kidneys and other vital organs, secrete hormones that cause the elevation of the diastolic pressure.
As a counterpart, the excessive consumption of foods such as meat, eggs, hard cheeses, seafood and other foods high in cholesterol and saturated fats, which we call extremely yang, constricts the arterioles, which are small vessels that connect the arteries with capillaries. This causes narrowing or blockage thickening of arterial walls, resulting in a decrease in the power of contraction of the arteries, which increases resistance to blood flow in the capillaries. So inevitably increases diastolic pressure, while causing an increase in systolic pressure to compensate.
If you persist in yang foods, be more severe with time, the aorta and major arteries, including the arteries of the heart. When you go getting stiff, lose their normal flexibility and can not relax when blood is ejected from the heart. To offset increases systolic pressure against the artery walls. When there is this type of hypertension the arteries lose their ability to contract with each heartbeat and then decreases the diastolic pressure.
This form of hypertension is commonly seen in middle-aged and elderly. The hardening tends to start in the peripheral vessels and over the years extends to the central blood vessels to the heart.
Therefore it is important to keep the circulatory system in good condition but when symptoms are present or the disease is declared as such, using the macrobiotic diet can improve and even cure completely.
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